Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bill still must pass through the Senate, where it failed last year, to get signed. H5110, introduced by Rep. Michelle McGaw, D ...

In some funeral parlors, physical casket showrooms could die out and move to a virtual realm — the space instead used for “water cremation” machines that break down a human body into bone fragments ...

It’s almost like a washing machine, if you ask Joseph H. Brown. The casket-shaped metal tank sitting in Brown’s crematory in West Baltimore uses hot water, chemicals and a bit of agitation to dissolve ...

When Stephanie Burris drives by graveyards near her home in Boulder County, Colorado, she sees thousands of tiny landfills: Concrete boxes filled with non-biodegradable caskets, which are lined with ...

Water cremation is also part of the bill Georgia legalized it earlier in May Six states legalized the practice last year, nearly doubling the number of places it is acceptable PROVIDENCE – A bill that ...

Water cremation and human composting could soon be offered as an alternative to traditional funerals. A Law Commission consultation is proposing legal approval of new methods beyond burial, cremation, ...

With climate change gaining prominence, there’s a concerted effort around ensuring eco-friendly, well, everything – including end-of-life processes. While traditional fire cremation burns fossil fuels ...

PROVIDENCE — Last year, the state House of Representatives engaged in a passionate, poignant, and occasionally amusing debate about a bill to allow the natural organic reduction of dead bodies — ...

Human composting was developed in Washington state in 2019. In two months, bodies are turned into rich soil. "Water cremation" was also part of the House bill. The bill still must pass through the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BALTIMORE — It’s almost like a washing machine, if you ask Joseph H. Brown. The casket-shaped metal tank sitting in Brown’s ...